Beatles, Bush and a toon-seum

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Abbey Road
Tucked away in a quiet and leafy corner of north-west London lies Abbey Road, made famous by the eponymous album by The Beatles in 1969. The cover photograph, with the four band members walking on the zebra crossing outside the Abbey Studios - with Paul McCartney barefoot, eyes closed and cigarette in hand - has acquired a cult status that remains undiminished to date. Scores of tourists continue to visit the road, scribbling messages of enduring affection ("John, I will never forget what you have done for me") on the regularly white-washed walls of the Abbey Studio and photographing themselves walking across the crossing, much to the bemusement of passing motorists and residents.

The Pressures of Friendship
The impact of India's economic resurgence and renewed self-confidence on its foreign policy is beginning to attract the attention of the western world. It is being watched....